Everything you need to know about booking, writing, and releasing successful marriage bureau advertisements.
For bureau owners and matchmaking agencies placing an ad. If you are looking to hire a bureau, the last group is for you.
Keep it to what a family scans for: the bureau name, the profiles you handle — community, NRI, re-marriage, divorcee, professionals — the city or area you serve, how long you have been running, and a phone number. Anything longer costs more per line without being read. Send us your details in any form, even a photo of handwritten notes, and we write the wording and show you a proof before it prints.
Usually on or beside the matrimonial pages, under a services or agency heading rather than under Wanted Bride or Wanted Groom — those are for individual match ads, and a bureau ad filed there tends to be moved by the paper. Tell us what your bureau does and we place it under the heading that paper uses.
Yes — that is classified display, priced per sq.cm rather than per line, and it lets you set your logo, a custom font, colour and a border so the block holds its place on a busy page. Plain classified text is cheaper and charged per line. Design and drafting are free with the booking either way.
Classified text is charged per line, so a short bureau ad is the cheapest option — the rate finder above shows the real figure for your paper and edition before you share anything, at official rates with a lowest-price guarantee. Classified display is charged per sq.cm. Both are per insertion, plus 5% GST, and booking several insertions together usually costs less than booking them one by one.
The one the families you serve read. In Punjab and the north that is usually The Tribune, Punjab Kesari, Dainik Jagran or Amar Ujala; in Bengal, Anandabazar Patrika; and Times of India where your enquiries are English-speaking or NRI. Tell us the city and the community you work with and we will name the paper.
Matrimonial pages are mostly a Sunday feature and the cut-off for that Sunday is usually Friday evening, with some papers closing earlier. An edition covers specific districts, not a whole state — which matters for a bureau, because an enquiry from three districts away rarely walks in. We confirm both the cut-off and the districts before you pay.
No, and we would rather say so plainly. releaseMyAd books newspaper advertisements; we do not run a marriage bureau, keep a list of them, or recommend one. If you found this page searching for a bureau in your city, the bureaus themselves are who you want — many of them advertise in the papers named on this page.
That is a different category, and a much better fit — book it on our matrimonial page instead. The format, the Wanted Bride and Wanted Groom headings, the caste and NRI columns and the Friday cut-off for Sunday are all handled there, and drafting and translation are free the same way.
Book and pay online in minutes — UPI/QR, card, net-banking or NEFT/RTGS through a secure link — with a GST invoice in your bureau's name if you need one. releaseMyAd is an INS-accredited online booking platform for 280+ dailies. After publication you can view your ad in that paper's e-paper for the published date and edition, or buy a printed copy locally.
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